Opinion: The basics of crisis management still apply — even amid COVID-19
Matthew L. Moseley
March 31, 2020
As legendary boxer Mike Tyson once said, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” These jabs and sucker punches to the face seem to be exactly what’s happening now as the coronavirus moves around the world. This is no ordinary disruption or regular crisis, it’s rapidly becoming a full-blown glacial meltdown.
Maybe this is what the band from Athens, Georgia, meant when they called themselves Widespread Panic.
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Guest column: Almost everything I learned was from restaurateur Ella Brennan
Matthew L. Moseley
June 6, 2018
I’ve spent most of my career in public relations and communications, but almost everything I learned was from restaurateur Ella Brennan. Her recent passing brought back fond memories and a few life lessons.
My first job after college in 1990 was as the assistant maître d' at Commander’s Palace in New Orleans, where I was in a management training program. Emeril Lagasse was the chef, and it was a special time when he was coming into his own before becoming the chef of his own empire. Ella Brennan, or Hurricane Ella as she could be known, was the matriarch of the restaurant. Commander’s Palace had just won the James Beard Award for Best Restaurant of the Year. Ella would go on to win Restaurateur of the Year.
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Q&A with Matt Moseley | A political consultant who lives — and swims — way outside the mainstream
By Dan Njegomir
April 10, 2018
Matt Moseley, finishing an epic crossing of Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain (Photo courtesy Matt Moseley)
No wonder Matt Moseley has survived and thrived in the political realm; he’s accustomed to swimming with sharks. In his case, literally. The Denver-based communications and media consultant — a veteran of the Colorado Capitol as well as the campaign trail — is also a record-setting open-water swimmer who most recently crossed a stretch of the Caribbean without the benefit of a shark cage.
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dovetail solutions Strengthens Public Affairs Practice with Addition of Matt Moseley as Chief Strategy Officer
July 25, 2016
DENVER- dovetail solutions, a leading full-service communications, branding and positioning firm celebrating 11 years of serving clients nationwide, has added Matt Moseley, formerly of InterMountain Public Affairs, to its practice as a partner and chief strategy officer.
LA WEEKLY: More Fear, Less Loathing
By David Cotner Thursday, Aug 26 2010
Just when you think you've heard every story about Hunter S. Thompson, another part of his life is uncovered, to thrill and inspire otherwise deadened millions. What's next — "Gail Palmer's Song"? While you wait for that particular magnum dopus, author Matthew Moseley discusses and presents his book Dear Dr. Thompson: Felony Murder, Hunter S. Thompson, and the Last Gonzo Campaign($19.99, Ghost Road Press).
EXAMINER: Felony Murder, Hunter S. Thompson and the last Gonzo campaign
by Sona Avakian
Avakian: Can you talk about the Felony Murder law?
Moseley: Felony Murder is a leftover of British Common Law and was abolished by most all common law countries in the world except the US. Think of it as the Bonnie and Clyde law. That Bonnie is held just as liable when Clyde goes into a bank and shoots a cop. Except now, prosecutors use the law to cast the widest possible net around a crime and hold people accountable for crimes they had no intent or desire to commit — like Lisl.
ASPEN TIMES WEEKLY: Review: Not the same old Hunter S. Thompson story
Rick Carroll
Aspen Times Weekly
During the months and years after Hunter S. Thompson killed himself, a cottage industry of sorts was spawned.
For a while, it seemed a book came out every month about the exploits of Thompson, the man responsible for gonzo journalism. Feeling a sense of information-overload about the maverick writer, I backed away from reading much of the new material.
THE ASPEN TIMES: Author Moseley to discuss 'Dear Dr. Thompson' in Aspen
Rick Carroll
The Aspen Times
ASPEN — Boulder author Matthew Moseley has some sage advice for those caught in a conundrum with nothing to lose: Write a letter to someone with influence.
That's what Lisl Auman did in 2001, while she was imprisoned for life without parole, from the Women's Correction Facility in Cañon City. The letter was addressed to Hunter S. Thompson's post office box in Woody Creek. When his personal assistant, Deborah Fuller, read Thompson the note, his journalistic juices started flowing. A week later, he discussed Auman's plight in his “Hey Rube” column on ESPN.com.
BOULDER WEEKLY: THOMPSONS LAST STAND
BOULDER AUTHOR CHRONICLES THE FINAL CRUSADE OF A RAGING MORALIST
By David Accomazzo
In 2001, convicted murderer Lisl Auman was 13 months into a life sentence when she wrote a letter to the author of a book that had recently brought her some joy in prison.
“I laughed out loud while reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas during my stay (13 months) at the Denver County Jail. Thank you for helping to bring a smile to my face,” she wrote, going on to say, “My name is Lisl Auman and I was convicted of felony murder in 1998 for the murder of a police officer. However — I maintain my innocence!!! … Check out the website they set up for me at www.lisl.com. Only if you’re interested, of course. Bye bye, Lisl.”
Westword: Hunter and the Hunted
By Jason Heller Thursday, Jun 10 2010
The late Hunter S. Thompson, never a predictable character, surprised even his most ardent fans when he took up the cause of Lisl Auman, a Colorado woman sentenced to life without parole after Denver police officer Bruce VanderJagt was killed in 1997 by her white-supremacist friend — after she had already detained in a police car. Thompson's public and passionate protests were undercut by a cruel irony: The legendary gonzo journalist died just weeks before Auman's conviction was reversed by the Supreme Court.
Still, Boulder-based writer Matthew L. Moseley — author of Dear Dr. Thompson: Felony Murder, Hunter S. Thompson, and the Last Gonzo Campaign — wants to make it clear that his book is the story of a young woman's struggle for justice as much as it is a document of the last years of one of America's most outrageous activists.
The Nervous Breakdown
Dear Dr. Thompson: An Excerpt
By Matthew Moseley
All systems were go for our one o’clock guerrilla theater. The drivers picked the group up just after noon from Denver’s venerable Brown Palace Hotel, and drove five blocks to the south circle of the Colorado State Capitol where they were met and escorted through the basement to a holding room.
Matthew Moseley: The TNB Self-Interview
Q. Good afternoon, Matt, how have you been, my man? Great for you to join yourself for lunch at The Mediterranean in Boulder. Great spot here on the patio with the sun shining.
A. I’m doing great. Thanks, TNB, for asking me to do my first-ever self-interview. This is a little strange — taking myself out to lunch — but I can roll with it. I just got back from the first part of my tour for my book Dear Dr. Thompson. I kicked it off in Los Angeles at the Chateau Marmont on May 20th, then San Francisco, Book Expo America in NYC, and then Washington DC at the Eighteenth Street Lounge, home of Thievery Corporation.
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Launch Pad TV: Matthew Moseley & Alex Hochron – June 4, 2010
This was our 1 year anniversary episode! We had some great guests on today with Matthew Moseley on to talk about his book Dear Dr. Thompson & also Alex Hochron to talk about HealthCampNola!
Ville Platte Gazette: Moseley pens book based on Lisl Auman case
By Heather Bogard
Lifestyles Editor
Lafayette native Matthew L. Moseley has released a novel titled “Dear Dr. Thompson: Felony Murder, Hunter S. Thompson and the Last Gonzo Campaign” and is currently on an 18-city book tour to promote the novel, which was released May 20.
The novel is an account of Lisl Auman and the crusade by Hunter Thompson that ultimately freed her from a life sentence without parole after eight years in prison. While serving a life sentence at Colorado Women’s Correctional Facility in Cañon City, 25-year-old Auman wrote an off-chance letter to legendary Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson to complain that his books were not available in the prison library.
Go-to Boulder author adds Big Easy lake swim to exploits
By Bill Husted
The Denver Post
Matt Moseley is having a busy month.
(Listen to the swim which was cut in NYC!)
The Boulder-based communications strategist and two pals recently swam across Lake Pontchartrain north of New Orleans to raise money to save the salt- water lake and its lighthouse. NOLA bluesman and "Treme" TV actor Coco Robicheaux was in the support boat, making Bloody Marys with some lake water thrown in and sporting a pistol to ward off alligators and sharks. This was just before the gulf oil spill.
AM 760 Interview with David Sirota
Author Matthew Moseley joined David to discuss his new book Dear Dr. Thompson: Felony Murder, Hunter S. Thompson and the Last Gonzo Campaign. Sometimes the only thing it takes to change a life is a letter.
While serving a life sentence at Colorado Women's Correctional Facility in Cañon City, twenty-five-year-old Lisl Auman wrote an off-chance letter to legendary Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson to complain that his books were not available in the prison library. Colorado based communications strategist Matthew Moseley also wrote his own memo to Thompson, outlining how to organize a grassroots campaign to free Lisl Auman from prison and to take on the draconian felony murder law. Dear Dr. Thompson chronicles Lisl's epic struggles and takes you inside the last - and perhaps greatest - Gonzo campaign. It is a cautionary tale about death, destruction, lies, justice, the power of media and ultimately, forgiveness. http://www.matthewlmoseley.net/
LA CONFIDENTIAL
The Final Gonzo Campaign
Author Matt Moseley brings his new book on one of renegade writer Hunter S. Thompson’s last battles to LA.
By Sari Anne Tuschman
A prolific author and founder of gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson is best known for his iconic drug-fueled novel about the failure of the 1960s countercultural movement, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Colorado-based communications strategist Matt Moseley was a friend of the legendary writer, who died in 2005, and together with several others, waged a war to get Lisl Auman released from a life sentence after being wrongfully convicted of felony murder. Moseley tells the harrowing story in his new book, Dear Dr. Thompson: Felony Murder, Hunter S. Thompson, and the Last Gonzo Campaign, which he brings to LA for a reading at the Chateau Marmont May 20 (8221 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, chateaumarmont.com).
Dear Dr. Thompson: The Rumpus Interview with Matthew L. Moseley
That’s what Hunter Thompson would have really wanted for people to understand, how one little letter can change your life. If you reach out, if you connect to the right person in the right way, it can change things, or get you out of prison.
By Julie Greicius
In 1997, 21-year-old Lisl Auman took a ride with some friends in a car known as the Thunder Chicken, driven by a man she’d met only that morning. By the end of their journey, that man, Matthaeus Jaehnig, a skinhead high on crystal meth, had killed a police officer and himself. Though she was handcuffed and in the police car at the time of their deaths, Auman was convicted of felony murder and sentenced to life in prison. But a letter to Hunter S. Thompson would change her fate. Matthew Moseley’s book, Dear Dr. Thomspon: Felony Murder, Hunter S. Thompson and the Last Gonzo Campaign, tells Auman’s story, and the story of how Thompson helped her achieve justice.